Improvement in ornamenting leather



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS WOLESON, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN ORNAMENTING LEATHER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,291, dated September 26, 1871.

To all whom 'it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, LOUIS WOLFSON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Mode of Ornamenting Leather or the Soles of Shoes, and do hereby declare the saine tO be fully described, as follows In carrying out my invention I cover with a thin coating of beeswax the sole or leather surface to be Ornamented, after which, with a hot iron or a heated die, Imark or print on the waxed surface the ligure or figures, device Or devices,

`that may be desirable to effect the Ornamentation. The heated iron or die changes the color of the wax to a dark brown, and sets the Wax into the leather so as tO permanently x the color. Finally, the whole surface so treated is to be polished or burnished with a polishing device or burnishing-tool, after which it will present a pleasing appearance, and, if desirable, may be varnished. ornamenting the Soles Of shoes, Or the backs' and covers of books, or various other articles of leather.

In the accompanying drawing, A denotes a section of apiece of leather; a, the surfacing or L. I. I-IERSLEY. Y (57) My invention is specially useful for l 

